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Congress members contribute to CORLEAP action plan with support from EU Commissioner Georgieva

Congress members contribute to CORLEAP action plan with support from EU Commissioner Georgieva[18/09/2012]

In Chisinau, Moldova, on 17 September, a final declaration unanimously adopted by the 16 members of the EU's Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the 16 representatives of the associations of local and regional authorities of the six EAP-partner countries - many of them members of the Congress - paved the way for a deepened political dialogue and for the concrete activities to be undertaken in the coming year, until the next ministerial meeting in Lithuania in November 2013. Congress SG Andreas Kiefer referred to the joint initiative with the CoR in the fight against corruption and invited donors to support this project. EU-Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgieva, voiced the Commission's support for CORLEAP as an indispensable forum of exchange to improve democratic governance.